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Nicole chewed the inside of her lower lip as she patiently waited for his reaction. She watched him intently as his expression morphed from confusion to wonder to shock to anger to helplessness.

He looked up at her, his eyes narrowed, a frown etched upon his beautiful face. He turned the stick around, pointing at the two red lines she had stared at all day today.

He shook his head, refusing to believe what was in front of him in plain sight. "You can't possibly be pregnant!" He growled.

Nicole sighed as she leaned back on the couch, her fingers combing her wild dark brown curls.

"And yet here I am." Nicole closed her eyes, hearing his heavy footsteps hurry towards her.

"Thorns, how the hell are you so calm about this?"

Nicole blinked her eyes open, studying her very best friend, sweat beading his forehead and lips quivering. It was safe to say that he was a more nervous wreck about this situation than she was right now.

She reached for his hands and rubbed circles on the back of them, tugging at them to make him crouch down in front of her.

"Because I am happy." Nicole blew out a breath.

"I know this comes with a lot and I mean a lot of repercussions, but I think that the joy and excitement I feel about this whole situation just outweighs them all." A smile tugged at her lips as she finished.

Surely, she was in a pickle here. She had four problems at hand now.

First and foremost. Nicole didn't know who the father was, as ridiculous as that sounded. She knew that it was the man she had slept with almost two months ago, and that made her roughly seven weeks pregnant.

She hadn't slept with anyone within a three-month span before him and none after him.

But the problem was, neither did she know his name nor did she remember his face, because he had been gone the following morning when she woke up.

The only thing she did remember were his green eyes, because he looked at her with so much intensity that she could not take her eyes away from him.

Everything else was just a vague memory. It was as if his stare was engraved into her mind, body and soul.

And Nicole was a forgetful drunk. Not something she was ever proud of, but this had now put her in a situation where she couldn't let him in on a fact that he had a right to know and where her child would have to grow up not knowing who his or her biological father is. And that made Nicole feel a bit uneasy and guilty.

Her second problem was breaking this out to Jake, her best friend and house mate. She had told him now. Mission accomplished? But she still hadn't told him about the first problem.

Third, telling her family.

Her father died of Cardiac Sarcoma when she was twenty-one so it was just her, her mother and grandmother now.

While Maddy Clemson was a chilled-out lady and would absolutely lose her mind with happiness when she hears about her great-grandchild, her mother Nancy Thorns was not going to take it well.

The criminal lawyer was cold-hearted to the world, but she went ballistic over every small aspect of her daughter's life. Nicole had a messed up past and Nancy had always blamed herself for it.

And she had promised her husband that she will protect and love her daughter on the behalf of the both of them at all cost. Now she was going to blame herself. But for what?

Fourth problem, Nicole was doing her residency now. She didn't know how her head, Dr. Bonnie Green, was going to take this news. Surely, she could drop it now and pick it up again later.

She knew she couldn't work now because her first trimester looked quite promising, what with her not being able to keep even water down. She didn't think a twenty-five-hour shift was the brightest idea.

Not only that, but she was just upset that she will not get to work with the legendary Dr. Green when she gets back to finish it.

Other than all of that, she was very happy, and undoubtedly excited for her child.

Nicole was doubtful and confused about a lot of things, and she did not understand many of her feelings but the only thing that she was so sure of was the fact that she wanted her child and she couldn't be happier.

And she already loved him or her with the whole of her heart. To hell with timing and all that shit.

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